The Theories of Organizational Behavior
Marzieh Hosseini Sarteshnizi; Mehdi Sabokro
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The purpose of this study is to Investigating the effect of Leader behaviors on the employees' voice behavior with the mediating role of Relational Identification and Work Engagement. The population is employees' of Water and Sewerage Company in Ahwaz city. 269 people were examined as a statistical ...
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The purpose of this study is to Investigating the effect of Leader behaviors on the employees' voice behavior with the mediating role of Relational Identification and Work Engagement. The population is employees' of Water and Sewerage Company in Ahwaz city. 269 people were examined as a statistical sample. The research is applied in terms of purpose and regarding the data collection the research is descriptive. Data were collected by simple random sampling method. The data collection tool was a questionnaire and its validity was confirmed by the discriminant validity and convergent validity was confirmed and the reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed by using Cronbach's alpha coefficient and construct reliability (CR). hypotheses were tested using Pearson correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling . The results of the test of research hypotheses show that ethical leadership significant effect on Work engagement, relational Identification and employees' voice behavior. Transformational leadership significant effect on work engagement, relational Identification and employees' voice behavior. Work engagement and relational Identification significant effect on and employees' voice behavior. The role of partial mediation of work engagement and relational Identification in the effect of ethical leadership and transformational leadership on employees' voice behavior was was confirmed.
Mansooreh Moeini Korbekandi; Gholamali Tabarsa
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The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of transformational leadership on work engagement with the mediating role of structural empowerment. The study in terms of purpose is practical and in terms of methods of data collection is survey from group of descriptive researches. The statistical ...
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The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of transformational leadership on work engagement with the mediating role of structural empowerment. The study in terms of purpose is practical and in terms of methods of data collection is survey from group of descriptive researches. The statistical population is staff employed at deputy for management development and resources of Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance 200 persons, the number of sample is 80 persons. The tool of data collection is questionnaire of transformational leadership provided by Rafferty & Griffin (2004) and questionnaire of structural empowerment provided by Jáimez Román & Bretones (2013) and questionnaire of work engagement provided by Schaufeli et al. (2006). Data analysis was performed with Structural Equation Modeling approach (SEM) with partial least squares method through Smart-PLS3 software. The findings of this study showed that proposed research model is validated and based on it; transformational leadership has led to structural empowerment and this has an impact on work engagement. Also, structural empowerment variable plays an intermediary role in the relationship between transformational leadership and work engagement.IntroductionThe present study investigated the effect of transformational leadership on work engagement with the mediating role of structural empowerment.Materials and MethodsThe study, in terms of purpose, is practical, and in terms of data collection methods is a survey from a group of descriptive researchers. The statistical population is staff employed as deputies for management development and resources of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance 200 persons, the number of the sample is 80 persons. The tool of data collection is the questionnaire on transformational leadership provided by Rafferty & Griffin (2004), and questionnaire on structural empowerment provided by Jáimez Román & Bretones (2013), and the questionnaire on work engagement provided by Schaufeli et al. (2006). Data analysis was performed using the Structural Equation Modeling approach (SEM) with the partial least squares method through Smart-PLS3 software. Discussion and ResultsThe findings of this study showed that the proposed research model is validated, and based on it, transformational leadership has led to structural empowerment, which impacts work engagement. Also, the structural empowerment variable is an intermediary in the relationship between transformational leadership and work engagement.ConclusionsThese findings can help managers use the interaction between these constructs to develop training programs that increase work engagement. On the other hand, the effect of improving transformational leadership abilities among leaders not only increases employee engagement but also increases their performance, which is considered a bonus for the organization.
Organizational Behavior
Marziyeh Dehghanizadeh; Ali Shojaeifard; Sajjad Zarei Pizadani
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The purpose of current research is to investigate effect of transformational leadership on organizational citizenship behavior: the role of identification, Work engagement, psychological empowerment and Proactive personality. The statistical population of this research is employees of Agricultural Jihad ...
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The purpose of current research is to investigate effect of transformational leadership on organizational citizenship behavior: the role of identification, Work engagement, psychological empowerment and Proactive personality. The statistical population of this research is employees of Agricultural Jihad Organization of Isfahan Province, that With Cochran's formula, a sample of 162 people was selected. research method is descriptive -survey, and the tool for collecting information is the use of the standard questionnaires. Its validity was checked based on factor of confirmatory analysis and its reliability was checked by Cronbach's alpha method and composite reliability. results of the current research show that transformational leadership has a positive and significant effect on organizational identification, Work engagement, and psychological empowerment, therefore, although transformational leadership does not directly have a significant effect on organizational citizenship behavior; However, with the existence of mediating variables of organizational identification, Work engagement and psychological empowerment, this effect becomes significant. Also, the effect of organizational identification, Work engagement and psychological empowerment on organizational citizenship behavior have positive and significant, and proactive personality plays a role in the relationship between transformational leadership on Work engagement and organizational identification and It acts as a moderator and cause of strengthens these two relationshipsIntroduction Today, the key to the success of organizations is the creation and development of organizational citizenship behavior among employees. The concept of organizational citizenship behavior in the field of organizational behavior emerged two decades ago and continues to develop. This issue is critical and essential for service organizations, such as the Agricultural Jahad Organization, whose activities depend highly on human resources (Sartika et al., 2020). Organizational citizenship behavior is a preferred extra-role and extra-task behavior of employees that promotes the success of organizations (Gammoh et al., 2021). Therefore, considering the importance of organizational citizenship behavior, it is necessary to conduct more research on the mechanisms that influence it; Therefore, the current research has addressed the issue of whether the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior may be mediated by the concepts of organizational identification, work engagement and psychological empowerment of the employees of the Isfahan Agricultural Jahad Organization and also whether the proactive personality of the employees of the Agricultural Jahad of Isfahan strengthens the effects of transformational leadership on organizational identification and work engagement or not?Materials and MethodsThe statistical population of this research is employees of the Agricultural Jahad Organization of Isfahan Province (280 people). With Cochran's formula, a sample of 162 people was selected. The research method is a descriptive -survey, and the tool for collecting information is standard questionnaires. The data gathering tools in this research are the transformational leadership standard questionnaire of Afsar et al. (2019), the organizational identification standard questionnaire by Su & Swanson (2019), the work engagement standard questionnaire by Schaufeli & Bakker (2004), the employee psychological empowerment's standard questionnaire of Spreitzer (1995); proactive personality's standard questionnaire of Akgunduz et al. (2018); and organizational citizenship behavior's standard questionnaire of Organ (1988). In order to check the validity of the questionnaires, in addition to the content validity, which management professors and experts confirmed, the validity of the questionnaires was also checked from the index of factor loadings. The reliability of the questionnaires was calculated using the two methods of Cronbach's alpha coefficient and composite reliability and confirmed the reliability of the validity of the research instrument. Discussion and ResultsThe findings of the current research show that transformational leadership has a positive and significant effect on organizational identification, work engagement, and psychological empowerment; therefore, although transformational leadership does not directly have a significant effect on organizational citizenship behavior; however, the existence of mediating variables of organizational identification, work engagement, and psychological empowerment, this effect becomes significant. Also, the effect of organizational identification, work engagement, and psychological empowerment on organizational citizenship behavior has positive and significant, and proactive personality plays a role in the relationship between transformational leadership on work engagement and organizational identification. It acts as a moderator and causes of strengthens these two relationships.ConclusionsAccording to the results of this research, it was found that by using the social identity theory, social exchange theory and self-concept theory, the transformational leadership style in the organization increased the employees' perception of the organizational identity and made them feel more attached to their jobs and also the power distance decreased and felt more empowered in his self-concept, and thus these cases increased organizational citizenship behaviors in the employees of the Agricultural Jahad Organization of Isfahan; Therefore, according to the dynamics of the environment, the managers of the agricultural jahad organization should pay attention to the transformational leadership style as one of the best management styles that create and manage changes in the organization and try to manage their employees with this leadership style, and value the development and participation of employees in organizational decision-making and encourage creativity and acceptance of challenges as part of their work so that a sense of purpose is created in people and developed beyond the standards, and as a result, employees also, transfer their ideas and insight to other members.
Mahdi Dehghani Soltani; Mahdi Joneidi Jafari
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Most of the frontline jobs put a lot of pressure on employees, because employees are in constant demand of managers and customers. Scholars believe psychological capable employees can overcome this challenge. This paper examines the mediating effect of psychological capital on work engagement, well-being ...
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Most of the frontline jobs put a lot of pressure on employees, because employees are in constant demand of managers and customers. Scholars believe psychological capable employees can overcome this challenge. This paper examines the mediating effect of psychological capital on work engagement, well-being and control at work. This study was conducted using a descriptive-survey research method with a sample of 828 employees of Mellat Bank, using a questionnaire and through structural equation method. The results of the research show that: (1) there is a significant relationship between work engagement and psychological capital. (2) Psychological capital plays the role of mediator between work engagement and well-being and control at work. (3) The results indicate that banks for providing customer orientation services, should put a program for recruiting and employing high psychologically staff, since they are vigorous and absorbed to their work and will promote well-being and control their work.
Mehdi Alhosseini Almodarresi; Majid Firouzkouhi Berenjabadi
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Resilience is defined as an individual’s ability to cope with current risks and dangers in the environment, in other words, this is a kind of flexibility in the face of environmental problems. In addition, nowadays employees are more willing to participate in organizational decisions and activities. ...
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Resilience is defined as an individual’s ability to cope with current risks and dangers in the environment, in other words, this is a kind of flexibility in the face of environmental problems. In addition, nowadays employees are more willing to participate in organizational decisions and activities. Job involvement has positive results in organizations, and causes the employees have more participation and enjoy for being a member in organization. Employees with high job involvement, would take lot of energy, dedicate himself/ herself and absorb in his/ her work. This study scrutinize the relationship between resilience and dimensions of job involvement (Taking energy, dedicating and absorbing). For this purpose, 200 employees in three public universities of Iran (Shahid Beheshti University, Allameh Tabatabae'i and Yazd University) are selected by convenience sampling. Then they are evaluated by the Shawfly and Becker questionnaire and the Connor- Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISK). To analyze data Structural Equation Modeling is used and finally, the results show that there is a significance relationship between resilience and dimensions of job involvement.
Asghar Moshabaki Esfahani; Zeinab Rezaee
Volume 23, Issue 73 , May 2014, , Pages 1-23
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In the past, attentions are given to theory making, research and application of positivism in psychology field, but today the positivism researchers have found the way into organizational studies. Application of the positivist psychology in organizational field is titled as "Positive Organizational Psychology". ...
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In the past, attentions are given to theory making, research and application of positivism in psychology field, but today the positivism researchers have found the way into organizational studies. Application of the positivist psychology in organizational field is titled as "Positive Organizational Psychology". In field of positive psychology application, in organization and management areas, two major approaches of "Positivist Organizational Behavior" and "Positivist Organizational scholarship" are discussed. In recent years, the researches in this field have mainly focused on positivist organizational behaviors. In this study, the effect of organizational positive virtuousness which is one of applied fields of positivist organizational researches, on organizational commitment and work engagement has been studied. The present research, in terms of goal is considered as applied and it is survey method. The research population includes the employees of the organizations in charge of reconstruction in Rasht city and the tools applied in this research are the standard questionnaires of organizational virtuousness, work engagement and organizational commitment. In order to analyze the data, the confirmatory factor analytic technique and the structural equation modeling has been used. The data analysis results confirm the presented conceptual model. Also, the research results show the positive and significant effect of organizational positive virtuousness on organizational commitment and work engagement and confirming positive and significant effect of work engagement on organizational commitment in 95 percent confidence level.
